A THOUGHT FOR NOW - SO, ARE ALL HUMANS REALLY CREATED EQUAL? PART 2

In the first part of this post, I have argued that, probably the only time when humans are 'equal', is for that brief moment when they are born and are presented to the external world in their nakedness. I could also have added that, probably the only other time when they might be considered 'equal', is at the point of their deaths.

You will recall that this post is an attempt to answer the question, 'are all humans really created equal', and that I have used the presumption of the American Constitution, in its reference to 'all men being created equal.....' to underscore my argument.

I have challenged the stipulation about 'all men being created', on the basis that humans, or rather, the first humans, were not created by god, but had in fact evolved from lower order - in terms of the intellectual ability to communicate meaningfully within and outside of one's specie - to higher order specie, such a primates. 

Evolution is a dynamic process, and, unlike the creation of a thing or person, where you can ensure that all the part which you use to create them, are of the same kind and quality, you cannot do this with an evolutionary process or through the begetting of a person through conception, maturation and birth. 

These two processes are open to producing humans with different characteristics, capabilities and attributes; which is why scientists are now involved in genetic engineering, in an attempt to improve the predictability of babies or animals being born without defects, or, if you will, according to requirements of, in the case of humans, the expectant parents.


So 'equality' without defining what is meant by it, is a pointless concept, and is, in any case, unless specifically engineered, not achievable. Babies are not really equal, because the care they are given by their parents, during the maturation process, is likely to be different, and reflect the intra-personal, social, intellectual and material circumstances of their parents.

We could probably apply the concept of 'creation' to the process of humans and animals giving birth to their young, but this still would not meet the definition of the generic use of the term 'all humans are created equal', for the reason I have cited about. Beyond the point of all babies being born tabula rasa, like blank slate on which to write and realise their life-script, the concept of all humans being born equal is also fallacious. 

This is because we would then have to consider the quality of the 'blank slate' on which each person's life-script is to be written on. An examination of which would  show that these 'blank slates' are not as blank as they might appear, even in the more obvious cases of babies being harmed while they were still developing in their mothers' bellies.

Without much more ado, it seems reasonable to work on the basis that, we we speak of the equality of or between people, we are really referring to the fact that we are all human beings, irrespective of the differences between us. Whether these differences are in terms of our intellect, our ethnic, racial, religious, national, gender orientations, or physical attributes.